Dirk Bogar never admted to beg gay until his dyg day. He never mentned his longtime partner any of his tobgraphi.
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VICTIM AT 60: THE HEARTBREAKG GAY DRAMA THAT PHED BOUNDARI
Released to a world where sex between adult men the Uned Kgdom was a heavily policed crime, is the first Brish film to e the word homosexual si a narrative that thoughtfully and unsensatnally ptur the cumulative daily strs and adly effects of the law. Unr the guise of a thriller, Victim addrs how the crimalisatn of homosexualy ma gay men, as a character says, the victims of “any cheap thug who fds out about our natural stcts.
In a le of dialogue drawn om fact, we learn that as many as 90 percent of all Brish blackmail s at this time had a homosexual orig. Dearn’s film is shaped by outrage, which ught the public imagatn – Victim has been ced as one trigger for the Sexual Offenc Act, which eventually crimalised homosexualy Bra 1967.
We watch Victim today, of urse, wh the knowledge that although Bogar was never open about , he was a homosexual. And yet wh Victim he embraced the risks to his reer posed by playg a gay man. In his later years, Bogar published several btsellg volum of memoir – throughout this refully nstcted rerd of his life there was no mentn of homosexualy.